Believe Her

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Believe Her is true crime, upside down. In September 2017, young mom Nikki Addimando shot and killed her partner, Chris Grover. She was sentenced to nineteen years to life in prison for murder. Through rare access to police audio, a month-long trial, conversations with Nikki, and original reporting, journalist Justine van der Leun lays out the killing, the evidence, and the aftermath. As this six-part series unfolds, listeners will put together different pieces of a disturbing puzzle. One thing is clear: perception ≠ reality. Believe Her is a riveting chronicle that grapples with assumptions we make about domestic and sexual violence, the long reach of trauma, and the ways in which survival is criminalized, leaving us shocked at how far people will go to avoid seeing what's right in front of them. From Lemonada Media and Spiegel & Grau.

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Nikki Addimando is a young mom in prison for murder. But she claims that she was acting in self-defense. This is the story we don’t tell, the one where the woman doesn’t die. Hosted by journalist Justine van der Leun, Believe Her -- Lemonada Media’s first true crime series -- premieres October 21, aligned with Domestic Violence Awareness Month. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Justine van der Leun

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Sandra Brown

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Excellent

Feb 12

Melly Lee12

Both narrator and the way this story is placed has been excellent. So glad Nikki is out and I really hope this sad story changes history for domestic violence. Still listening to the podcast and ready to finish. Thank you for sharing. Thank you for staying next to Nikki’s side. I would have done too same way this narrator got sucked on the story. Nikki deserves more. We deserve more 💜
Broken people

Apr 1

Bobby fluffles

Two things can be true- a person can be abused and they can murder their abuser. It wasn’t legally self defense but I can’t believe the prosecutor tried to paint her as some evil manipulator who spent years hurting herself to paint him as an abuser. It’s a sad case and I hope people watching will be careful when starting relationships. Believe them when people show you who they truly are- you can’t fix them. Prayers lifted for all involved.
Believe Her

Mar 21

KodaKSS

The narrator is horrible. She believes one way and tells the story as if it is literally impossible for a jury to come to the conclusion they did.
Good for you

12/30/2024

Pilotceecee

Good for you to be able to understand the depths of domestic violence. Not everybody can, and most of them have to have been through it to truly understand. A lot of the stories I hear about or listen to like this one brings me back to the time where I was in a similar situation. I always used to be able to protect myself and my mom and my little brother so that saying you could’ve just left used to be the way I thought and looked at those type of situations. Until I was in one and realized it’s not that easy and I couldn’t protect myself. So many times I played through my head if I can’t protect myself, how am I gonna protect myself and my kids? That part about the gun, reminds me of a time when I had hid my gun from my ex-husband after I found out, he was taking it from my lockbox. This was deep into the abuse already going on and I remember when he put hands on me until I showed him where the gun was. At this point I was so beat and broken in that moment I felt like I had to shoot him. When I pulled the gun out from under the mattress, I thought about it for a split second, and then I hesitated, and before I knew it, he had the gun which was loaded and pointing at my head. I was terrified to leave him even if I got me and my kids away from him he wasn’t going to let me just leave. He would’ve found me. It wasn’t until the day My nanny said she couldn’t hear me anymore from the bedroom and thought I was dead so she called 911 that’s when I was finally able to get away. Through that time I thought to myself over and over how was I going to get out, will I have to kill him to get away to protect myself and my kids every single day I thought about that. Had it got to that point it might’ve been a time where he wasn’t being abusive in that exact moment. But when you are trying to escape something so scary and life threatening you don’t wait until your life is at risk again to run you wait for the right opportunity and if the only opportunity you have is to make the same decision, Nicky made, then why should it matter the timing or if Chris was asleep. She had the opportunity in that moment to be free of him or take the risk of losing her life and her kids suffering for the rest of theirs I would’ve believed him. I would’ve believed that he was going to do the things he said he would do. But self-defense in the eyes of the justice system wouldn’t have been considered, that’s what’s so sad. They don’t understand the nightmare Victims are living every moment of their life while in the grasp somebody so evil. I never knew when my husband was going to get Violet with me. It would be so left field and out of the blue he was a time bomb. I’m sad for Nicky and her kids…… but thank you for being a voice for Nikki and believing her.

Believe Her is true crime, upside down. In September 2017, young mom Nikki Addimando shot and killed her partner, Chris Grover. She was sentenced to nineteen years to life in prison for murder. Through rare access to police audio, a month-long trial, conversations with Nikki, and original reporting, journalist Justine van der Leun lays out the killing, the evidence, and the aftermath. As this six-part series unfolds, listeners will put together different pieces of a disturbing puzzle. One thing is clear: perception ≠ reality. Believe Her is a riveting chronicle that grapples with assumptions we make about domestic and sexual violence, the long reach of trauma, and the ways in which survival is criminalized, leaving us shocked at how far people will go to avoid seeing what's right in front of them. From Lemonada Media and Spiegel & Grau.